Muslim world

September 19, 2024 | |

Israeli Businessman Indicted in Iranian-Orchestrated Assassination Plot Appears in Court

An Israeli businessman accused of participating in an Iranian plot to assassinate top Israeli leaders appeared in court in the city of Beersheba on September 19. A joint statement...

September 9, 2024 | |

Erdogan Calls on Muslim Nations to Isolate Israel

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on September 7 called for the formation of an Islamic alliance to halt what he called “the growing threat of expansionism” from the Jewish state. Falsely claiming...

August 31, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Al Qaeda praises Taliban’s ‘historic victory’ in Afghanistan

Al Qaeda’s senior leadership has released a two-page statement congratulating the Islamic ummah on the occasion of the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan. The brief message was distributed online by As...

March 12, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Al Qaeda leader threatens Myanmar in new video

Al Qaeda’s main propaganda arm, As Sahab, has released a new video titled, “The Wound of the Rohingya is the Wound of the Ummah.” The 21-minute propaganda film features undated audio clips of Ayman...

October 16, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

How not to end endless wars

Retreating and abandoning allies may not be the optimum strategy.

May 1, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German NGO disinvites Israeli writer for slamming Berlin pro-Iran

Social Democratic Foundation worked with terrorist entity Hezbollah.

November 28, 2016 | David Weinberg |

A Tale of Two Trumps

There seem to be at least two Donald Trumps on how to deal with Saudi Arabia, and it's difficult to know which one will trump the other in office. Trump One sai...

October 14, 2016 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Unhappy Anniversary

Ayatollah Khamenei, the "Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution," commemorated the end of Ramadan with a lengthy anti-American, antisemitic screed. Khamenei has repeatedly accused the W...

September 7, 2016 | Clifford D. May

How the world has changed since 9/11

The 15th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 should be a time for mourning, commemoration, reflection — and strategic planning. But many people prefer to avoid thinking to...

April 22, 2015 | |

The Islamic World’s Thirty Years War

Even as Iran’s Islamic revolutionaries were toppling the Shah in 1979, at the core of their thinking was that their Shia revolution should not be limited to their homeland but ex...

May 27, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

The Muslims’ War Against Fun Is Killing Them

We all know the Muslim world is a political and cultural disaster zone. All you need to know is the spectacularly low level of book sales in the Arab world, and a similarly miserable rec...

May 14, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Hooray for Hollywood

Jay Leno and Ellen DeGeneres brought a smile to my lips last week – and not by saying anything funny. They were out in the not-so-fresh air on Sunset Boulevard demonstrating agains...

April 22, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal The Tower |

Europe Has a Serious Hezbollah Problem

After decades of denial, Europe’s leaders may have to face the grim truth about the world’s most sophisticated terror group.

September 21, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet

How Orientalism Shaped Obama

The White House’s response to the anti-Islam video is proof of the enduring influence of Edward Said’s ideas

October 24, 2011 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

Fears and Smears

Islamophobia is not an irrational fear, nor is it the fear of Islam.

October 13, 2011 | Reuel Marc Gerecht The Wall Street Journal |

Iran’s Act of War

The Islamic Republic is becoming more dangerous, not less, as it ages.

September 14, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer Middle East Quarterly

Early Warnings Ignored

September 11: A Decade Later

September 16, 2010 |

Cry Islamophobia!

We Americans should be ashamed! What an intolerant, bigoted, hateful lot we are! Or so we are being told by our political and media elites. Lawrence Wright, in The New Yorker – yes, The New...

June 11, 2009 | |

Living on Obama Beach

"Obama Beach." That phrase was a slip of the tongue by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, speaking last Saturday in Normandy, alongside President Barack Obama and other leaders gathered in hono...

October 2, 2008 | Clifford D. May

Shut Up, He Explained

Yet another way to restrict free speech.